Connectionists: Summer School on Cognitive Science and Machine Learning

[Silvia Chiappa]

We invite applications for the PASCAL2 Summer School on Cognitive 
Science and Machine Learning that will be held at Sardegna Ricerche 
(Italy) from May 6 to May 12 2010.

http://www.mlss.cc/sardinia10

The school is organised by PASCAL2, University College London, Cambridge 
University, UC Berkeley, Manchester University, Max Planck Institute for 
Biological Cybernetics, and MIT.

The event will take place immediately before and near the AISTATS 2010 
conference.

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Theme of the Summer School:

Cognitive science aims to reverse engineer human intelligence; machine 
learning provides one of our most powerful sources of insight into how 
machine intelligence is possible. Cognitive science therefore raises 
challenges for, and draws inspiration from, machine learning; and 
insights about the human mind may help inspire new directions for 
machine learning. This summer school brings together leading researchers 
from both fields, and those working at the interface between them. It is 
aimed at graduate students, post-docs and established researchers from 
both the cognitive science and machine learning communities, interested 
in exploring the interface between human and machine intelligence.

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Confirmed Speakers:

Nick Chater, University College London
Alex Clark, Royal Holloway University of London
Silvia Chiappa, Cambridge University
Peter Dayan, University College London
Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley
Konrad Körding, Northwestern University
Neil Lawrence, Manchester University
Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Satinder Singh, University of Michigan
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
Chris Watkins, Royal Holloway University of London
Felix Wichmann, Technical University of Berlin

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Important Dates:

Application Submission Deadline: March 1 2010
Notification: March 26 2010
Subscription Deadline: April 1 2010